Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Interesting. Even, I guess, the snow is different. Different amounts of snow, before was
there more snow
Was more snow when we were growing up. And we always went to school with sweaters
on, because it always drizzled.
Naturally more snow means more thunder storms.
Yes.
Lot of thunder.
That meant there was more water flowing, the pastures, the paddocks were stronger
That’s right.
And able to support the pipi
Had nice grass, beautiful grass.
And that creates also, one problem comes in, lot of undesirable weeds come up too.
Yes.
That was my job to take care the weeds [chuckles].
That’s an important thing. I’m going to pull out a map, this map is large and it’s in your
packet. It’s a 1917 map, a portion of the Parker Ranch lands. This is Register Map 2786.
The map is really great, there’s Kemole up by aunty’s hand there.
Yes.
Here’s Heihei, Holoholokü is out this side coming this way.
Yes.
Here’s Nohonaohae nui, you know where the Saddle Road basically
Yes, Nohonaohae.
Mahaelua, the pu‘u going up, this is the Waiki‘i pastures here. Here’s the old stone wall
down on Waiköloa and then you come out to the Puakö vicinity like that. So, pipi at
different times, you could run them on these lower kula lands
Yes.
Because there would be grass like that
That’s right.
May I ask you, you said there’s a problem with weeds
You know utilizing that low land there, this was I would say back in the twenties, they
were hardly used.
Not too much.
Yes. Because the pasture was, you ever heard of the false pili grass
Yes.
The false one
Yes.
The pili grass was mostly up Pu‘u Ke‘eke‘e area where the Mormons used to go and
harvest that pili grass and take ‘em to…
Lä‘ie.
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:227